MA Enlish Part-1
Classical Poetry
2005 Punjab
University
PAPER I: CLASSICAL POETRY
Attempt FOUR
questions, including Question No. 1, which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry
equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of
the following passages:
(i) `Fallen cherub to be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering;
but of this be sure
To do aught good
never will be our task
But ever to do ill our sole delight....'
(ii) He sette nat his benefice to hyre
And leet his sheepe encombred in the myre,
And ran to Londoun, Unto seint poules,
To seeten hym a
chaunterie for sonless.
(iii) Whatever
spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or Leaves the fair at
large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon O'ertake his
sins
Be stopped in vials,
or transfixed with pins.
(iv) Or let these
two, themselves, not mee decay;
So shall I, live, thy stage, not triumph bee,
Last thou thy love and hate and mee undoe,
To let me live, 0
love and hate me too.
(v) "0 place of bliss, renewer of my
woes,
Give me
account—where is my noble fere,
Whom in thy walls
thou didst each might enclose,
To another life, but unto me most dear"
(vi) All is possible!
Whose list believe,
Trust therefore
first and after preve;
As men wed ladies by License and Leave;
All is possible.
(vii) "Of the fruit of each tree in the
garden we may eat,
But of the fruit of this fair tree a midst
The garden, God hath
said, `ye shall not eat
Thereof, nor shall
ye touch it, Lest ye die"
(viii) And if some
Lover, such as wee,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still
Markus, he shall see
Small change, when we are to bodies gone.
2. In “The
Rape of the Lock”, the metamorphosis of the epic gains full creative freedom.
Discuss.
3. Write a detailed critical analysis of two of the
following poems:
(i)
Prisoned in Windsor
(ii) On Wyatt's death
(iii) They flee from
me
4. In waiting
the Paradise Lost, has Milton succeeded in justifying the ways of God to men?
5.
"Donne's Monarchy of wit was not a trick or fashion but one of the
greatest achievements of the- poetic intelligence". Discuss the
appropriateness of this remark by Leishman.
6. What are the salient features of Chaucer's style?
Illustrate from the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
7 While Satan of the first two books of the Paradise
Lost pleases the modern sensibility, Milton's concept of man woman relationship
does not. Do you agree?
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2005
PAPER II: DRAMA Marks:100
Attempt FOUR questions, including Question No. 1,
which is COMPULSORY. All
questions carry equal marks. 1.Explain, with reference to the context, any
THREE of the following passages:
(i)
The God thou
serv'st is thine own appetite.
Wherein, is fixed the love of Belzebub.
To him,
I'll build an altar and a church And offer him lukewarm blood of newborn babes.
(ii)
Let every man is
mankind's fraility
Consider his last day, and let None
Presume on his good fortune until he find
Life, at his death, a memory without pain.
(iii)
There's some ill planet reigns:
I must be patient till the heavbps look
With an aspect more favourable,
(iv)
Dangerous conceits, are in their nature
poisons which
....with a little act upon the blood
Burn like
the mines of sulpher.
(v)
It pains me very
much to have to speak frankly to you.
Lady Breckneill, about your nephew, but the
fact is that
I do not approve of all his moral character.
I suspect
him of being untruthful.
2. Discuss
Marlowe's Faustus as an over reacher, drawing closely on the text.
3. What in your opinion is Oedipus thamartia' and
what is its relevance to the play Oedipus Rex.
4. How far would you agree that Shakespeare's
Othello is a domestic tragedy?
5. 'Shakespeare never did anything finer Matt
serious more evocative of his full powers than his picture of an earthly paradise
painted in the form of an English countryside'. What factors contribute to this
picture of an earthly paradise?
6. In the play Othello Iago is not a character of
fiendish intellectual superiority. He has been used by Shakespeare as a foil
for Othello's own weaknesses. How far would you agree?
7. The play The Importance of Being Earnest has as its
philosophy "that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously,
and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality".
Discuss.
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PAPERIII: NOVEL Marks:
100
Attempt any
FOUR questions. All questions carry Equal marks.
1. Faithful
observation, personal detachment and a fine sense of ironic comedy are among
Jane Austen's chief characteristics as a writer.
2. Trollope
preferred to describe his characters before showing in action and sometimes his
initial descriptions of them are more interesting than their own subsequent
behaviour. Discuss.
3. The
character of Adam Bede is built up from the firm foundation of Native Sagacity
and an indomitable sense of justice. Comment.
4. Unlike
Hetty, Adam Bede is a man we are called upon to understand in depth; where she
is static and bewildered, he is evolving and aware. Symbolism lends additional
meanings to those which are apparent on the surface. Discuss with special
reference to A Tale of Two Cities.
6. Through a
series of events over which Clym has very little control, he comes to feel
responsible for the deaths of his mother and wife. Discuss.
7 Write critical notes on any Two of the following
topics:
(i)
Jane Austen's
limited range.
(ii)
Trollope's art of characterization
(iii)
"Egdon
Heath symbolises the whole cosmic order in which man is but an insignificant
particle"
(iv)
There was a
revolution in the life of Dickens which corresponded to the external revolution
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2005 PAPER IV: PROSE Marks: 100
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry Equal
marks.
1. "Bacon is the most complete representative of
the Renaissance in England learned worldly, ambitious, intriguing...."
Elaborate with reference to his essays.
2. But for the lively humour in which he wraps his
satire, Swift would have been unreadable.
3. Uphold or refute Russell's advocacy of 'World
Government' in his `Unpopular Essays', especially in view of the turn history
has recently taken.
4. In what sense does Edward Said refer to culture as
a "soft or theatre". Explain with reference to the literacy forms the society that engages in
colonial practices.
5. How war is Seamus Heaney justified in seeking the
Redress of poetry?
6. "When life is the criterion and not art, the
prose of a nation is far more important than its poetry". Elaborate.
7. What function does Russell recommend for the
teacher? Do you find it viable in our own society?
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2005 PAPER V:
American Literature Marks: 100
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry Equal
marks.
1. The novel 'Jazz by Toni Morrison reflects the
complexities of urban life. Illustrate the statement.
2. Write a comprehensive note on the theme of Feminism
as treated by Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich in their poems.
3. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following poems:
(i) After the
Last Bulletin by Richard Wilbur
(ii) Melodic Train by John Ashbery
4. In Mourning Becomes Electra past is synonymous with
fate elaborate the statement.
5. Discuss the novel ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ as a
critical analysis of the behaviour of human beings under turbulent conditions of war.
6. Do you regard Abigail Williams as a victim or vamp
Base your arguments on textual evidence.
7. Discuss the major themes in the poetry of Sylvia
Plath.
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2006 PAPER I: CLASSICAL POETRY
Attempt FOUR questions, including Question No.1
which is COMPULSORY.
All questions carry equal marks.
I. Explain with reference to the context any
FOUR of the following extracts:
(i) In all the possible wifne was
thee noon
That to the offerynge before hire should goon;
And if ther dide, ceneyn so wrooth was she.
That she was out of all charitee.
(ii) If they be two, they are two so
As
stifle twin compasses are two
(iii) 0 thoughtless mortals!
Everblinclto fate,
Too soon defected.
and too soon elate.
Sudden, these honours shall be snatched away
And cursed forever this victorious day
(iv) Space may produce new
worlds;
where of so rife there went a fame in Heaven
that are long.
Intended to create, and therein plant
A generation whom his choice
regard.
Should favour equal to the sons
of I kaven.
(i)
Earth felt the wound, and Nature
from her scat.
Sighing through all her works
gave signs of woe,
that all was lost.
(ii)
Thou art slave to Fate,
Chance Kings and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sickness
dwell
And Poppie, or charms can make us sleep as
well.
And better than thy stroake;
(iii)
If it be yea, I shall be fain If
it be nay, friends, as before;
You shall anther men obtain,
And I mine own, and yours no more.
(viii) The stately scats, the ladies bright hue
The dances short, long tales of
great delight;
With words and looks that tigers could but
sue,
Where each of us did plead the
other's right.
2. What
is major contribution of Thomas Wyatt to English Poetry of the Renaissance?
Discuss with reference to the poems
you have studies.
3. Write a critical appreciation of any TWO of
the following poems.
(i) Love that doth reign....
(ii) My friend, the things...
(iii) Wyatt rested) here.....
4. Discuss and illustrate the
artistic method adopted by Chaucer in the portrayal of his pilgrims in the
Prologue.
5. Milton conceived and executed the scheme of
Paradise Lost in accordance with principles of classical epics. Discuss.
6. Do you agree that in The Rape
of the Lock' the mock-heroic element is not the dominant interest but the
brilliant picture of fashionable life? Discuss.
7. Discuss Donne as a
Metaphysical poet.
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2006 PAPER II: DRAMA
Attempt any FOUR Questions, including Question
No.I which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
I. Explain with reference to the context, any
THREE of the following passages:
(i) Ah Faustus Now has thou but one bare hour
to live. And then thou must be damn’d perpetually Stand still, you ever moving
spheres of heaven
That time may cease, and midnight never come
Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise
again, and make
Perpetual day: or let this hour
be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day
That Faustus may repent and save
his soul.
(ii) Do not counsel me anymore.
This punishment that I have laid upon myself
is just.
If I had eyes I do not know how I would bear
the sight of my father,
When I come to the house of Death, or my
mother, for I have sinned against them both
So vilely that I could not make
my peace By strangling my own life
(iii) I had rather be a toad
And live upon the Vigor of a
dungeon
Than keep a corner in the thing I
love for the other's uses
(iv) They call him Doricles; and boast himself
To have a worthy feeding; but I have it Upon
his own report and I believe it; He looks like sooth He says he loves my
daughter: I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon Upon the water as he'll
stand and read As it were my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain
I think there is not half a kiss
to choose
Who loves another best
(v) Yes, I felt it instinctively but I
couldn't wait all that time. I hate waiting even five minutes for anybody. It
always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like
punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be martial, is quiet out of the
questions.
2. Do you think that hubris plays a
significant part in the fall of Oedipus?
3. Does the speech by the Chorus in the
epilogue do justice to the Character Faustus?
4. How does Othello's imagination
contribute to his breakdown?
5. Discuss the significance of language in
Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
6. Discuss the play 'The Winter's Tale' as a
tragic comedy.
7. Lago is more a catalyst who precipitates
destruction than devil who causes it.
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Marks: 100
2006 PAPER III: NOVEL
Attempt any FOUR Questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
I. Jane Austen was fully alive to her
limitations, as such: she nem touched a character or scene she did not
thoroughly know. Discuss.
2. A Talc of Two Cities is Dickens's
most impersonal novel, especially ' because of the grand objectivity of
historic-al events with which it deals. Discuss.
3. Mr. Slope is a cunning and
ruthless opportunist loyal to none but himself. Discuss with special reference
to Barchester Towers.
4. Clym's blindness is a physical
manifestation, a symbol of his intellectual obtuseness or social maladjustment.
Discuss.
5. Being superior to Hetty both in years and
in experience of the world. Arthur's responsibility is much greater for the
suffering and tragedy of poor limy. Discuss.
6. Henry lives simply by the coercive morality
of the community and when this is broken, she is destroyed. Discuss.
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the
following topics:
(i) Jane Austen's at of characterization.
(ii) The role of 'Fate and Destiny in Hardy's
novels.
(iii) Symbolism in A Talc of Two
Cities.
(iv) Gorge Eliot's art of
Narration.
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2006
PAPER IV: PROSE Marks: 100
Attempt any FOUR Questions. All questions
carry equal marks.
1. With Bacon does the new era of
English prose start. Elaborate with reference to his essays.
2. His satire grows more and more bitter as
Swift progresses from book of his *Gulliver's Travels'. Discuss.
3. Swift devised a prose style that suited his
purpose very well. Elaborate with special reference to his 'Gulliver's
Travels'.
4. Can ideas, good or bad be so
effective as Bertrand Russell has claimed? Make out a case for or against in
the light of his Unpopular Essays'.
5. How far has Edward Said
succeeded in stripping the mask from the ugly face of Imperialism? Elaborate
with special reference to his 'Introduction to Culture and Imperialism'.
6. Poetry is as much relevant as
ever even in this highly industrialized age of ours. Discuss with reference to
Seamus Heaney.
7. Trace the development of
English Prose from Bacon to Seamus Heaney.
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PAPER V-2006: AMERICAN LITERATURE Attempt any FOUR Questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Toni Morrison has used
the subject of Jan music as a metaphor for the ever changing conditions of African-American life in the 1920s
and as a reflection of the perpetual human struggle between right and wrong.
Elaborate.
2. Sylvia Plath exposes her
subjectivity in terms of objectivity. Illustrate the statement with reference
to her poems you have studied.
3. Critically evaluate any
ONE of the following poems:
(i) Poppies in October by Sylvia Plath.
(ii) The Painter by John Ashbery d.
4 Discuss the mother and daughters relationship in Mourning
Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill.
5. Discuss Jordan's
Relationship with Maria. Do you find Maria a convincing character?
6. John Proctor stands
unique amongst Miller's creations not because of inherent superiority but because of the intensity of
his moral response. Justify it.
7. Discuss the major themes
in the poetry of John Ashbcry.
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